Voters elect Wes Uhlman as Seattle Mayor on November 4, 1969.

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On November 4, 1969, Wes Uhlman (b. 1935) defeats Mort Frayn to become Seattle's youngest mayor at age 34. Wayne Larkin (ca. 1927-2009), Jeannette Williams (1914-2008), Liem Tuai, and George Cooley are elected to the Seattle City Council. Voters reject a transit household tax and a school levy.

Because the office of mayor was vacant (J. D. "Dorm" Braman had been appointed to a post in the Nixon Administration), Uhlman took office on December 1, 1969, one month before the usual inauguration.

Wes Uhlman, Pike Place Market, 1974

Detail, Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives (36790)

Sources:

Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 276; "Mayors of the City of Seattle," Seattle Municipal Clerk website, (www.cityofseattle.net/cityarchives/ Reference/Mayors.htm).

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